J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs 1845

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs’ 1845
Folio 13 Verso:
Cliffs 1845
D35286
Turner Bequest CCCLIV 13a
Pencil on white wove paper, 72 x 111 mm
Turner has used this page to quickly sketch cliff profiles, probably taken on his route between Dover, the location for the drawings on the preceding folios 11 verso–13 recto (D35282–D35285), and Folkestone, which appears in the continuation of one of these sketches on folio 14 recto opposite (D35287).

Amy Concannon
May 2025

How to cite

Amy Concannon, ‘Cliffs 1845’, catalogue entry, May 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/cliffs-r1214196, accessed 11 July 2026.